Chapter 58: Innate Comforts the Afflicted and Afflicts the Comfortable

It is time once again to Stew on This! I choose to be more IN-formed!

There I was, minding my own business, listening to Cliff Hardick speak at ChiroEurope Seminar in Spain a few weeks ago, when Innate chose to afflict my comfortable life and direct me to go back into chiropractic practice.

If you have somehow missed this news, you can read all the details in Chapter 55.

It took me by complete surprise, but in retrospect, I had been seeking clarity for several years, as I have had the strong feeling that something new was waiting to be birthed through me and that there were still things I could contribute to chiropractic and the world.

I had also been seeking ways to engage more in the world and to connect more with my fellow humans (we have been quite hermit-like since Covid), and had so far been less than successful. This revelation seems to tick that box as well.

Thank you, Innate. I most certainly could not have done better myself!

I am reminded of two things about all this.

The first is the value of trusting in the wee small voice of Spirit that speaks through my heart, doing what I can to be open to it and creating space for it to actually speak to me.

It makes no sense to me that my Innate Intelligence can do 200 octillion things in each second to create and maintain ease and harmony within my physiology, but have no way to guide me in my life.

Its messages do seem to come by accident, but I know that I can always make myself more accident-prone!

I have long advocated for (and have lived) an inner-directed life and yet it still amazes me when guidance and answers come so clearly. I am grateful and happy that I have contributed to that by trusting and acting on inner guidance in the past.

The world offers me an overwhelming plethora of information from the outside-in, and very little of it nurtures my soul or empowers me to grow. Much of it stresses me out and tends to shuts me down. Especially to the inner guidance of my heart.

I choose to be more IN-formed!

For me, this starts with “asking.” My preferred way to ask for what I want is not by begging. I do not believe there is a shipping and receiving department in the universe somewhere that sends me things based on my requests.

My asking is more like claiming. It is akin to the way the landlord tends to ask me for the rent!

Asking for me is mostly clarifying what I most desire, getting myself aligned in a consciousness of Innate and love and then holding an expectancy for an “answer.”

When I ask in this way, I am focused on that which I desire and I open to receive it.

And I almost always do, even if it takes a few years!

Asking is a spiritual practice. Dick Santo taught me to wake up in the morning and immediately ask something like, “what is one thing I can do today to serve more effectively and whole-heartedly?” And then I act on whatever I get.

Similarly, I conclude all the HeartMath meditations I do by literally asking my coherent heart for anything it chooses to reveal in that moment. And then I act on what I get.

No matter how much asking you and might currently be doing, are we giving ourselves the space and time to hear the wee small voice within?

I hope so, because the second thing I want to share about my recent revelation is that it is NEVER TOO LATE for a new insight from within to completely alter the trajectory of my life!

When I first got the message from Innate, a string of “yeah, buts” ran through my head. Mostly about me being too old.

I decided I am definitely not too old, but perhaps I had gotten a bit too comfortable.

So instead of stewing on my yeah, buts, I am questioning them, staying in alignment with my values and principles, continuing to grow in my ability to experience and express love, holding a vision that my greatest contributions have yet to be, and continuing to do what I can do be accident prone.

This has all proven to be very helpful lately, because along with thoughts about my age, I have noticed other thoughts about how the world has perhaps passed me by and that I and my gifts have somehow become “obsolete.” This happens, for instance, every time I get frustrated with technology (a daily occurrence.)

But no, it is not too late for me. And it is not too late for any of us to live a dream we haven’t pursued, to heal a broken relationship, to find more peace of mind, to discover things that make us feel more alive, or to express or experience more love and joyl

It is not too late, and first step to any of these can be revealed from within in the very next breath. So, I intend to abide in my heart and to keep it open so I can be present to the messages when they come.

I have noticed they do not come with prior announcements!

I am still awaiting clarity on when, where and how “going back into practice” will look, but I am trusting that all will be revealed from within instead of me figuring it all out.

Stew on that, and I shall see you next time.

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